Word: aromas
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...tastes quite differently to different palates. Though the farmers may be slightly mollified, Wall Street is not. "The money-changers" are very unhappy about the whole thing. It goes against the natures of such simple idealists to be forced into the sceptic's position, nostrils dilated at the unpleasant aroma of a rat; but their hard business heads suspect that "managed currency" is just another slogan for that hardly defined but always suspicious phenomenon: inflation. The President is coming face to face with the sad fact that farmer and banker are betting on very different horses with no hope...
...train plunged into a ravine. Sharpest of all is the picture of Johnny's Grandfather Willingdon who came home to Johnny's house when he was an old man. He lived, embittered, eccentric and alone, in a room above the kitchen that was pervaded by the aroma of his kerosene lamp, his dry tobacco and the apples he kept piled upon a table...
...aroma of flowers...
Eliot believes that wherever a man may write poetry in English he will eventually become sought after and well-read in all English speaking countries. "Interesting poets are pretty fairly well distributed between America and England," he continued as the library became thicker with the aroma of English tobacco. When asked whether or not he noted anything of especial interest now that he is back in Cambridge, the poet, who is an English subject, replied, "People make interest and I haven't had the chance to meet anyone since my return...
...Amid the aroma of cigar smoke President Hoover was talking to big, burly Christopher Morley, poet and writer, in the Lincoln Study. Inquisitive about the President's reading habits Mr. Morley had been invited as an overnight White House guest. Last week's Saturday Review of Literature published his White House findings...